Edward Kang and Kandis Kovalsky of Kang Haggerty

House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Mark Takano of California.

Kang Haggerty was invited for its pivotal role in a landmark False Claims Act (FCA) whistleblower case against Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company known for its unlawful marketing of Subsys, a fentanyl-based painkiller. Edward and Kandis shared insights on the power of the FCA to combat healthcare fraud and protect public health.

The roundtable featured prominent voices from Harvard, Brown, Penn, and the University of Chicago, and included Pennsylvania Senator Amanda Cappelletti and Congressman Chris Deluzio. The discussion underscored the urgent need for transparency and accountability in veteran healthcare systems. The roundtable was convened by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, led by Ranking Member Mark Takano of California.

Watch the full roundtable program

Read Edward and Kandis’s column in The Legal Intelligencer: Lincoln’s Law, One of the Most Powerful Tools to Combat Fraud on the Government, Is Under Attack

Attorneys were recognized in the following practice areas for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

Edward T. Kang

Litigation – Construction

Daniel D. Haggerty

Real Estate Law

Henry J. Donner

Construction Law

Litigation – Construction

Stanley B. Edelstein

Construction Law

Litigation – Construction

Gregory H. Mathews

Commercial Litigation

Kyle T. Garabedian (Ones to Watch)

Commercial Litigation

Litigation – Construction

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Edward Kang stands among an elite group as one of only 40 ranked litigators in the Philadelphia & Surroundings region, recognized for his excellence in general commercial litigation.

Henry Donner earns distinguished recognition as the sole ranked “Senior Statesman” for Construction Law in Pennsylvania, underscoring his decades of leadership and influence in the field.

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Pennsylvania Super Lawyers List — 2025

Edward T. Kang – Business Litigation

Jacklyn Fetbroyt – Business/Corporate

Henry J. Donner – Construction Litigation, Real Estate, Employee Benefits

Stanley B. Edelstein – Construction Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Pennsylvania Rising Stars List — 2025

Kandis L. Kovalsky – Business Litigation, Antitrust Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Civil Litigation

Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service for lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The lawyers selected include those with many years of experience, as well as the Rising Stars of the profession. Read more about the methodology and selection process here.

The class-action complaint, filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania last week against Philadelphia, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, the Philadelphia Parking Authority, and PPA officials, takes issue with the wording of violation notices because the notices say the registered owner of the car is liable to pay the fine. “Noticeably absent” from the notices, the lawsuit says, is that car owners can dispute a citation if they didn’t drive the car.

“People don’t even know that they have a defense because the tickets are misleading,” said Kyle Garabedian, an attorney with Kang Haggerty who represents the car owners.

The due process violations alleged in the complaint raise concerns that the programs issue misleading tickets as a way to “generate a massive amount of money,” Garabedian said.

To join or learn more about this class action lawsuit, please contact Kang Haggerty today for more information.

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The article states that Danon and Vanguard have agreed to mediate the whistleblower-retaliation lawsuit he filed against Vanguard alleging a wrongful termination. A May 26 order by U.S. District Judge Berle M. Schiller requires the two sides to update him on June 16 on their efforts with an independent mediator and to keep updating him once a month.  The case will be stayed during the mediation.

The lawsuit, with court filings starting in 2013, says that Danon reported to his Vanguard supervisors that he had found two potentially billion-dollar tax frauds at the Malvern-based investment giant:

• Setting fees the company’s investor funds paid its own management company, so as to reduce its annual income tax obligations, which he said broke federal tax rules requiring a company to pay market prices for services from its own affiliates.
• Stashing cash in a $2 billion “contingency reserve” that was neither shared with investors nor subjected to income taxes.

Danon said he was fired by Vanguard in retaliation, less than a month after contacting the SEC for the alleged illegal practices by Vanguard.

Edward T. Kang of Kang Haggerty represents Danon. The Inquirer article states: If the court found Danon went to the SEC with allegations of “illegal practices” before he was fired, Danon “would have viable claims under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act,” which includes hefty rewards for whistleblowers, according to Kang.

If you were the victim of whistleblower retaliation or want to learn more about whistleblower actions, please contact the Kang Haggerty attorneys at The Whistleblower Advocates today.

Pennsylvania Super Lawyers List — 2023

Edward T. Kang – Business Litigation

Jacklyn Fetbroyt – Business/Corporate

Henry J. Donner – Construction Litigation, Real Estate, Employee Benefits

Pennsylvania Rising Stars List — 2023

Kandis L. Kovalsky – Business Litigation, Antitrust Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Civil Litigation: Plaintiff

David R. Scott – Business Litigation, Civil Litigation: Plaintiff, Construction Litigation: Business, Civil Litigation: Defense

Lauren C. Goodfellow – Business Litigation, Business/Corporate

Super Lawyers recognizes the top attorneys nationwide, across a variety of practice areas and firm sizes, using a patented process of independent research and peer input. The lawyers selected include those with many years of experience, as well as the Rising Stars of the profession. Read more about the methodology and selection process here.

“My advice is to not use them in the workplace at all because there is no such thing as a safe emoji,” Kang says in the article.

Even ones that appear innocuous can be problematic, noting that the popular “thumbs up” emoji, for example, tends to have a positive connotation with older generations but can be seen as dismissive by a younger viewer.

This annual recognition of whistleblowers, whose actions have protected the American people from fraud or malfeasance, started in 2013 with the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives recognizing July 30th to commemorate and embolden past and future whistleblowers.

Kang Haggerty’s Whistleblower Advocates division is committed to representing whistleblowers—holding companies and their executives accountable. We affirm the importance of whistleblowing by ensuring that rights are protected, fraud is passionately combatted, and the rule of law is aggressively upheld. Kang Haggerty thanks all the courageous whistleblowers that have raised qui tam actions and are eager to continue providing clients with the legal and strategic resources they need to successfully expose fraudulent activity.

Active members of TAF—Taxpayers Against Fraud, Kang Haggerty members Edward Kang and Kandis Kovalsky will present How to Whet Uncle Sam’s Whistle: A Guide to Litigating Cases under the False Claims Act at the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) 2022 National Convention in November.

Kovalsky told Law360 that she, Wolfe and Kang had worked recently on a large opioid case where the government intervened after a whistleblower complaint. She said that case made it clear the firm could really make a name for itself, weeding out fraud and misconduct through helping whistleblowers bring similar cases, especially in the opioids and health care spaces.

“The opioid epidemic and health care fraud generally, is something we’re particularly interested in and is an area where we feel like we can make a difference for whistleblowers, holding corporate defendants and their executives accountable,” she said.

Wolfe said he’s expecting to see more qui tam cases emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, especially with fraud related to the COVID relief money distributed as a result of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act.

Article: https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/1508701/kang-haggerty-opens-whistleblower-division